Spiders of course...something about all those legs. I don't care if they are the size of a pencil eraser either and some of 'em are furry little devils and some hop..oh it's just freaky.

Also long bridges that are over water. All I can think about when I'm on one is the bridge collapsing and my car going into the water and dying. I try to avoid them at all costs.

I knew you were my people........I have never been surrounded by so many wonderful clown haters in my life. I had felt so alone...<sniff sniff>

Sharni~ I am sooooooo with you on the green slimy stuff. If I see vegetation of any kind in the water, then I am a beach bunny only that day! Blech!!!!

I am reading about deep fears and phobias.

Phobias are intense irrational fears which are able to be

dealt with only with help.

Deep fears primarily expressions of real concerns.

My spider and height phobias are common, but also my fear of

water in which I cannot see the bottom or any distance into the

water . Sure there's a claustrophobia aspect to this.

I am in the fear of heights group...but I also fear that one day I'll end up in a town with no women :D

Legend, that's not phobia, that's Tasmania.

Very well said (((((Prophet)))))!!!!

Dont worry Axe darlin, I'm a Search and Rescue member, my German Shepherd and I will come find you. Merlyn and I can find anyone.


Prophet: I'm with you babe.... all the way. damned mortals and their senses of humour
Majikly Delicious,
Kyttn

Well-my phobia is jelly fish. On the beach, in the water, wherever.
I've never heard of anyone else having this phobia-but hey, never know i guess. Something about how gushy they are and can still sting you and they're hard to see. Oh, and black or green or red snakes in trees-only if they're in trees do they bother me.

mtavistar, Sharni - a lot of the beaches up north here have been closed because there has been an influx of deadly jellyfish. and now they think they've found a new deadly species. so i wouldn't think it to be an uncommon fear.

Mtavistar ---

OMG --- you have the thing with the jellyfish too??? I thought I was the only one with that! I didn't mention it in my phobia spiel above because, well, it's not a very active phobia with me right now since there aren't exactly a lot of jellyfish in the Great Lakes... But put me anywhere near seawater and I get completely and totally creeped out. Took a trip down to the East Coast to go to Prince Edward Island with my family when I was a kid and from the first time I saw a jellyfish on the beach, I had nightmares every night.

Hmm. Come to think of it, I've had almost every fear or phobia mentioned on here to some extent. Gee, I guess why they called it generalized anxiety disorder, huh? :rolleyes: Or maybe I'm just plain chicken...? (Nah.)

Hugs and courage to all.

--- sweetstuff

Heights, I have a great fear of falling.

I have a phobia about heights, but can control it now to some degree.
I have an odd phobia about tree frogs. (aka, sucker toed frogs) I get creeped out just looking at them. I have been jumped on by them before, and is the most disgusting feeling!! Living in south Florida, they are everywhere.
I have no phobias with other reptiles or animals. I am the kind of girl who goes fishing and camping. Taught her kids how to catch lizards and snakes. Will catch spiders and put them outside if they scare someone else in the house.(ifup to me, would happily cohabitate). This phobia bothers me. I think, they are just frogs, but when faced with one.... irrational fear.

Sadora~ Nothing worse than stepping out the house and having one of those lil' green sticky things land on you.... maybe it is regional!LMAO!Yuck!

One of my lil brothers... when he was about 6 jumped into the ocean and at the same time, it looked like 40 or 50 jellyfish surfaced.... they were all in his swim shorts all over his legs and stomach and back.... he didnt swim for the last week and a half of vacation.....

thought the swelling would never go down

Kyttn

yeah, I often get that when I'm looking at all the lovely Pixie's Ladies pics :D

legend---That is a different kind of swelling.They tell you not to
scratch Poison Ivy or not rub it because a liquid will come out &
spread the infection.With this kind of swelling;you rub the swollen
area;a liquid;comes out and; in most cases;the swelling goes down!Just a medical remedy to offer assistance.It has;worked;at least temorarily;for me.That's why they call me;Dr. Irish Irish

Lilith- I won't even go around bushes after dark. So afraid one will jump on me. One time, we were having a few beers around the pool. I had kittens at the time, so didn't pay much attention to something crawling up my leg. I reaced down to pick up the kitten, and it was a damn tree frog!! EEWWW!
*rubs her hand vigorously just from the thought.
Another thing that creeps me out are those wooden dummies. I saw Magic when I was a kid, and I still don't like the look of those things.

Sadora~ Were we separated at birth? Ventriloquist dummies.....(shudders)

how can anyone be afraid of those poor frogs, especially tree frogs....we get really big white lipped tree frogs here, and they hardly move! you can pat them and pick them up and they don't care.

Cool critters!
 

Man oh man...white lipped tree frogs, green sticky frogs, jellyfish?

All we have here are mosquitoes and I ain't afraid of no itsy bitsy skeeter. :eek:




Especially for Lilith....

**newsflash! this just in!!! i found these shoes at the side of my bed. what could this MEAN?????**

Randygal~ Unless you are married to Ronald McDonald I would look in your closet for the clown there holding a bloody knife:O

RandyGal---If all you found was the shoes and no white residue and that's all that you remember.He can't do very good work!I
wouldn't worry about it.Just get a pregnancy test;to be sure!
Irish

Excellent point Irish...

thanks.

*heading to the store now to buy a CPT*






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Scotz~ you don't have to worry you don't get preggers from getting fucked up the ass :D ROTFLMAO

Scotz---You got fucked by a clown when Bill Clinton was in charge!
---my opinion.My wife got a check when we were married and in the service.Not Food Stamps!! Irish
P.S.Different strokes for different folks.

Can't do heights, nor depths in murky water-I mean I live in the UK, there ain't any bad things here with teeth in these waters,,,but my imagination goes riot and I have to get out of the water.

And the worst one - water on my face. I hate not being able to see...whether it is getting splashed at the pool or in the shower...I hate it. I can't see and I just know there is a monster ready to shred me to bits just behind me...I feel so foolish, but I can't stop the panic inside :(

MissX~ that is why you must follow the safety rules and ALWAYS shower with a buddy... has kept me safe for a long time now:D

Right, Im off to email this to MrX, I knew someone would have a solution if I 'fessed up to Pixies.
Thanks Lilith!

Send in the clowns?

First, make sure Shonda Purvis of Dallas isn't within screaming distance. "Evil! Evil! Oh, I hate clowns," says Purvis, 36. "Despise (them). Get the shaking heebs just thinking about them."

Purvis and others suffer from coulrophobia, the fear of clowns.

They join an estimated 6.3 million Americans from ages 18 to 54 who have specific phobias, according to the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.

You scoff? For heaven's sake, you ask, who in the world would be afraid of Bozo? How could Ronald McDonald make anyone want to heave up her hamburger?

Ask Forrest York of Mesquite, Texas, who recalls being traumatized by the Town Clown on the old "Captain Kangaroo" TV show. "I was sitting in the living room and all of a sudden the clown comes on," he says. "I'm scared, and I know I don't like this."

York, 38, has three boys and a girl. None is afraid of clowns. But when he takes his youngest boy to McDonald's, he has to turn over his son's box of chicken nuggets if it bears a picture of Ronald on the top.

"I'm not comfortable in any way looking at them," says York, who owns a T-shirt that reads "Can't Sleep Clowns Will Eat Me."

Popular culture has long acknowledged a dark side of clowning. Its ancient roots embrace some aspects of shamanism and the supernatural.

Clowns may have evolved as jesters and tricksters, but the dark side never vanished. Even Disney acknowledged it: Remember those sadistic drunks who tortured Dumbo in Disney's animated classic?

Clowns in horror movies such as "Poltergeist" or "Spawn" are meant to scare the baggy pants off you. Pennywise, the clown in Stephen King's "It," lives in the sewer, has razor-sharp claws and kills children.

All this fear of clowns distresses Ruth Chaddick of Cuero, Texas. Chaddick, 48, is special events manager with Feld Entertainment, which operates the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. A Ringling clown for five years, she also worked with Ringling's now-defunct Clown College for 13 years. She taught clowning and makeup, among other things.

"(Ringling clowns) were trained to be sensitive," she says. "If someone was fearful, you would not push yourself on that person."

She can understand how children can be intimidated by their first real-life encounter with a clown. "Children are used to seeing clowns 3 inches tall on TV," she says. "But at the circus, they're seeing this large person, all made up in strange clothes. Momma has pushed them into the clown's arms and said, `Here, let's take a picture.' The parents have told them all their life not to talk to strangers, and all of a sudden here's a stranger."

Ringling clowns were taught how to deal with this, Chaddick says. "You make yourself small. You get down to their level -- squat or whatever -- (and) use a soft voice. We don't go around with big honking horns. Use a small voice and take anything away that might be fearful to (kids)."

Colin Ross, a Dallas psychiatrist, sees coulrophobia as a garden-variety phobia. It can be treated like most other phobias, with gradually increasing exposure to the source of the fear. He sketches out the procedure after the patient finds a therapist:

"You talk about it until you're comfortable with the subject. Then the therapist shows pictures. Then maybe you look at a clown doll across the room, then progress to holding it. Then a video of a clown, looking at it in longer increments. Then going to a museum or store with clown costumes. Then going to the circus, just walking in and out. Then staying for two minutes but not for clown act," he says. Finally, you can face the music. And, hopefully, the clown.

"If that doesn't work, then you might try some anti-anxiety medications while you're doing this work. Then you might try a variety of medications," Ross says. If the fear still persists, "it might become a psychological puzzle -- you might want to see if something else underlies this fear."

Thanks, but no thanks, says York. He's never consulted a therapist and doesn't plan to. "I just find it a whole lot cheaper and easier to avoid the silly people." (He's talking about clowns.)

And York isn't sure there'd be any point in therapy, anyway.

"I don't know that I want to like them," he says. "I have this deep-down feeling that some of them are serial killers and are wearing makeup to hide."

BOX

Coulrophobia has spread to the Web, where sufferers can vent on sites such as www.ihateclowns.com and www.clownz.com.

TY Oldfart!!! I did a speech on courophobia last semester at school. Played sound clips of Pennywise, from It, and songs from Insane Clown Posse (nasty nasty stuff).

I need one of those t-shirts!

Crowds... I don't know why but I freak out if I am surrounded by people I don't know I start to flip out and yell at people to get the f**k away from me... *sigh* yeah I am that crazy person....

Nothing that hasn't been mentioned already but ...

Clowns (creepy, evil bastards) and spiders (I literally have nightmares about them)

I do, however, feel a little better knowing that the clown thing is common. I thought I was the only one.

Is it just me or does anyone else fear Tyra Bank's navel?
..We get about 8-12 Victoria's Secret catalogs a week and her navel is every where it is so deep and cavernous I am petrified just turning the pages I mean this is the stuff of Stephen King novels.....

snakes anything but snakes

2-4-tea clowns and snakes both pure evil only good clown/snake is a dead clown/snake.


My worst nightmare...................a snake handling clown!:o:p

Clowns, Spiders and......Dark Black Bodies of Water. *shudder*

south---The only time to fear Tyra Banks navel,is when it's not
deep enough to stick your tongue or dick into! Irish

Irish...that is the scary part...you don't know what might be lurking in that thing! I have seen horrible things crawl out of deep dark holes...I mean it is not like there is any warm pink inside to that thing, it is just like a dark endless abyss... Sure she is pretty but there in lies the danger! You go to give that thing a kiss and next thing there are people putting your face on milkcartons and light poles.